Artistic Honor

July 05, 1992

Jessie Woods, chair of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs`

Advisory Board and a founder of Urban Gateways, received the $2,500 1992 Selina Roberts Ottum Award from the National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies during its national convention in Tucson. She was cited for her work providing access to arts education to many children on Chicago`s South Side. Woods and two other volunteers began Urban Gateways to bring arts programs to schools in 1961. Ottum was president of the arts board from 1984 to 1986.